The Gilbert Family Foundation and North Corktown Neighborhood Association (NCNA) today announced Tomorrow’s Housing Innovation Showcase (THIS), a new effort to show the potential for factory-built housing to provide high-quality and attainable homes for Detroiters.
The city offers plenty of vacant land for new housing, with the bulk of it owned by the city, Detroit Land Bank Authority, and private individuals and companies.
Right now, new home construction is expensive, but if manufactured housing takes hold, prices will drop considerably.
To begin the process, NCNA has begun to engage residents in its plans, which will use future-forward sustainable production methods that have proven successful in other U.S cities.
Tomorrow’s Housing Innovation Showcase will work with up to nine different manufacturers, each of which will build one modern, energy-efficient home in North Corktown.
NCNA will establish a community land trust (CLT) to manage the project, ensuring the homes are developed in alignment with the community’s needs and that local renters and first-time homebuyers have the first opportunity to own the homes. The parcels used for the project have been vacant for decades.